The Global Volcanism Program has no Weekly Reports available for Baluran.

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Volcano Types

Stratovolcano

Tectonic Setting

Subduction zoneContinental crust (> 25 km)

Rock Types

Major
Andesite / Basaltic Andesite

Population

Within 5 kmWithin 10 kmWithin 30 kmWithin 100 km

1,313
59,107
437,688
5,474,053

Geological Summary

The small 1247-m-high andesitic volcano of Baluran, dwarfed by its neighbor Ijen volcano to the SW, occupies the very NE tip of Java. Gunung Baluran contains a broad horseshoe-shaped crater breached to the NE. The volcano lies within a national park and game reserve featuring savannah grasslands and monsoon forests. Baluran was considered by van Bemmelen (1949b) to be of Holocene age.

The Global Volcanism Program has no synonyms or subfeatures listed for Baluran.

Photo Gallery

An aerial view from the SW on September 12, 1991 shows an eruption plume from Raung volcano in eastern Java blown by strong winds to the NW. Behind Raung is the massive Ijen caldera, capped by the post-caldera cone of Gunung Merapi (upper right). The light spot below and to the left of Merapi is Kawah Ijen, a renowned crater lake. The flat-topped volcano at the upper left is Gunung Baluran, which occupies the NE-most tip of the island of Java.

Photo by Jeff Post, 1991 (Smithsonian Institution).

An atmospheric cloud drifts to the east from the summit of the small 1247-m-high andesitic volcano of Baluran, seen here from the SW, along the saddle between it and Ijen volcano. Gunung Baluran, which occupies the very NE tip of Java, contains a broad horseshoe-shaped crater breached to the NE. The volcano lies within a national park and game reserve featuring savannah grasslands and monsoon forests.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1995 (Smithsonian Institution).

References

The following references have all been used during the compilation of data for this volcano, it is not a comprehensive bibliography. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title.

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